Out and about in Adelaide

Last night was a little shorter than ideal, after a big day yesterday.
We headed off to Geoff and Jenny Henstock’s house this morning for a 10am morning tea and catchup.
Mark Vincent (who has been staying with them) was just about to leave for some other activities for the day before flying back to the UK tonight to take up the role of Editor, commencing Monday! We had last met Mark in 2016 when he was a speaker at the Sydney Conference and it was nice to spend a few minutes chatting with him before he left.
Geoff has been receiving very significant chemotherapy and radiotherapy for a recently diagnosed oesophageal malignancy. He has been pretty miserable with side effects from this treatment over the past few weeks but is now feeling much improved and was in fine form this morning. Geoff and I go back to high school days in Sydney and we have been close friends ever since. It was great to see them again and I even received a personally signed copy of Geoff’s newly released book entitled ‘Palestine: Mythical Yet Real’ - the release of which amazingly coincided exactly with Hamas’ invasion of Israel a week ago.

We returned back home to the Tretola’s for a bite of lunch with Dan and Beth before then heading off to the Adelaide Hills looking at potential wedding venues for next year’s big event. After sussing out 2 lovely venues, we then headed back into the city to meet Michael and Verity Edgecombe for dinner at the Peppers hotel. A lovely evening was had, including an unexpected visit from Nathan and Caroline Luke who called in for dessert.

Another big day has concluded - our last here before our planned flight home tomorrow morning.Read more